What is Reddit's opinion of The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth?

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This book is used to help encourage people to get treatment for their mental health issues. Get the audiobook, it's only about 4 hours. It could potentially the thing that drives you to a therapist/psychiatrist. Depression is very real and if left untreated can be fatal. Please sit and listen to the audiobook. It's on audible but you can probably torrent it. Good luck.

<em>The Road Less Traveled</em> by M. Scott Peck is a profound and immensely readable book. It is the one book that I can attest to for deeply affecting the course of my life, and I've bought and given away at least 50 copies of this one book over the years when advising younger people.

I strongly recommend https://www.amazon.com/Road-Less-Traveled-Timeless-Traditional/dp/0743243153

Key take-away: “Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.”

My favorite book is: The Road Less Travelled.
I started dating a wonderful woman approximately 8 years ago, and she loves books. I was looking for something to read one day, and of all the books between 3 bookshelves, I randomly picked this one. This book has provided me with a lot of introspection on life, love, and just being a human. The opening line in the book is "Life is difficult". Once we accept that fact, it becomes a whole lot easier.

I didn't know this at the time, but it also happens to be my girlfriends favorite book as well. We both try to re-read it once a year to refresh ourselves on it. It's definitely not for everyone, but it's always my one book to recommend.

I get that, I'm not trying to be critical of your progress or circumstances, I just have to try to help with a couple of short paragraphs. If you're really interested in working on yourself and fulfilling your potential for growth, I would recommend that you read The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck. It may help to get you to a place where you really can snap your fingers to shift perspectives that will advance your growth. I give this book to everyone.

The Road Less Traveled might also be helpful as a way to research into being better adapt to debate the issue.

It presents a series of arguments for GOD from a rather advanced point of view (he was a psychologist). This makes them very compelling. Taking the arguments from that book and doing a little bit of research on-line will present you with the counter-arguments you might need when you are debating.

I would suggest reading the book "The Road Less Traveled" by M. Scott Peck. It is one of my favorite books and has helped me a lot. It was recommended to me by my father.

> 0) Develop Your Mindset.

This is what I came here to say. There's a book called 'Mindset' and the tldr; is that there's the Fixed mindset, and the Growth mindset, and which one you are will determine so much of the kind of life you'll lead.

One comment about the pain you feel: you get to the point where the pain of changing is greater than the pain of staying the same, that's when real progress occurs.

I do have a book to recommend that had a strong influence on me during my college years, and I still think about it decades later. It is called The Road Less Traveled (Amazon) and here's a brief summary from /r/Decidingtobebetter.

As you can't afford to fix your truck, PM me your snail-mail address and I buy you a copy myself (serious, from a random internet stranger).

All the best.

The road less traveled by Scott Pecklink Went back to therapy and learned a lot about myself

Glad to help! Here's the link of the book just in case:

https://www.amazon.com/Road-Less-Traveled-Timeless-Traditional/dp/0743243153

Were you referring to this book?

Because you have chosen the road less traveled.

This book explains it better than I can.

i am not going to give you a diagnosis because i am in no way qualified to tell you what is up.

but if you feel unconfident, then i guess you should work on that. maybe the problem is your worthiness, it sounds cheesy as shit, but if you believe you aren't worthy to be around women, well you will act as if you are not, and women will see that, and boom! fucking self fulfilling prophecy.

anyway, what worked for me, to gain more self esteem and confidence is a book called the road less traveled i can't recommend this book enough!

it truly is a wonderful book, i felt like it was talking to me when i read it, i felt relief to be honest, i felt like shit for not realizing it early that, shit takes time to accomplish, but bit by bit you will have to work at it you'lll get there.

there is a segment in the book which is really empowering, that talks about ownership of problems,

now this may sound fucking obvious to some people, like "duh if you want to solve a problem you have, nobody is going to do it for you, its your problem!" its so logical right?

but when you don't feel worthy of having that weight in your shourlders, that you have power to change what you are, where you are, and where you want to be, that is PERSONAL POWER man!

the book makes you see that.

hey you were poorly diciplined as a child? well its ok, understand your parents they fuck up too, but it shouldn't burden your whole existance.

thing is that BY Taking responsibility for your problems you are doing two important things in self esteem.

1-stop seeking validation from others- aka if you have a goal and are solving it well people are always going to discourage you, you try to lose weight? well guess what some people will see that change and will try to get you back at being a fat person. but you taking charge of your situation is what counts!

2- investment of time in you- if you have a problem and take time to do shit, say read a book, or like in this case asking help on the webs, well you are taking charge towards driving yourself to be better. congrats, investment in self is important, because you wouldn't invest in something that isn't valuable, when you hold your opinion of yourself to be in a higher regard, WITHOUT BEING DELUDED!, its so empowering, because inside you know you are cool, you are special, you know you can have fun and enjoy people's company, even if you don't have the "record" to show it. but who ever does at the begining!?

this is important in regard to rejection, because say you approached that cute girl you find attractive, but say she flips out, (unlikely to happen unless you are RUDE!) but say she flips out and calls you a fatfuck, unatractive and a wimp.

well with this new concept, of self investment, you can quickly dimiss toxicity, you know that even if what she said was true, say you are in real life a fat person, there is no real reson to be a dick, plus, its only her opinion, an opinion of a stranger, but now since you are no longer validated by strangers, you are independent of both positive and negative critisism (obviouly you want constructive critizism but not shallow critism)

what i am trying to say is you will have more self esteem if you were validated on your standards over people's standards, because if you wait on peole well because simple you are the one that knows what you've been trhough over a stranger who only judges a segment of your life! see what im saying?

i really love the segment on problem ownership, you own your problems, no one will tell you or even help you, but as long as you have that responsibility and accountability of problems you are empowered to change.

haveing that drive to not feel like a victim and blame other people for your shortcommings is so great! it feels good bing in control over feeling powerless and dependent on other people.

maybe i am not explaining it correctly which is why i recommend you read this book so you get the 1st hand experience and take out what applies to you and what not applies to you.

i really love this book and if people want to be more confident, this book has very good bits that will help you, maybe even after reading the book you'd probably feel better. just one thing i recommend is that you recommend this book to other people if they need help just like i've "helped" you by maybe reading that book.

its all really up to you if you want to order that book, and invest time in yourself by reading it.

The Road Less Traveled is a classic for good reasons -

This is a book that has help me a lot when it comes to mitigating my own life and looking to change patterns without the Dogma. http://www.amazon.com/Road-Less-Traveled-Timeless-Edition/dp/0743243153

The official story narrative is self-censoring for a variety of reasons most of them psychological based on nothing more than the desire to fit in and not be branded a heretic or a crazy lunatic. It's very cowardly yes, but it's also human nature, and it goes to show that a PhD doesn't have much clout in matters of scientific and historical scrutiny and analysis at it might have once had.

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One of the best books i've ever read on the subject of mental and spiritual health and well being is called &quot;The Road Less Travelled, A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth&quot; by M. Scott Peck, M.D.. In it, he posits a few basic precepts as the foundational cornerstone to all human mental health, and by comparison, mental illness, of which "we are all mentally ill to a greater or lessor degree lacking perfect mental and spiritual health and well being" surrounding what he refers to as the four tools of discipline, and they are:

1) Delay of Gratification

2) Dedication to Truth

3) Acceptance of Responsibility

4) Balancing, or the ability to bracket or filter emotional reaction/responses and with absolute awareness choose that which is most appropriate in each and every circumstance, or right being, right thinking right action. How this relates to others obviously involves a rather high degree of very complex decision making, requiring of the balancer that they must continually work to strike and restrike the most appropriate balancing act, and thus it requires a great deal of work and effort where the possible payoff is much greater by far than the price in neccessary suffering to realize it.

The will to use and employ these tools of discipline - is Love, where Love may in turn be defined as:

"Love is the will to give of one's self for the sake of another's mental, emotional and spiritual growth and well being." (paradoxically this includes the self in the expanded act of moving beyond one's self and narrow self-serving agenda, in self-sacrifice and self-giving and leaving the self behind)

This then leads to Peck's follow-up book called "A World Waiting to be Born, Civillity Rediscovered" which arose from the principals unearthed as if inspired by a Godly muse i should add in his first book "A Road Less Travelled" in which he further defines "Civility" or how we relate or ought to relate to one another within a societal and even a governing dynamic, as:

"Consciously motivated organizational behavior that is ethical in submission to a higher power", or as he goes on to show is essential in such a context an imagined perfect observer where perhaps the new science axiom of to be is to be percieved, isn't entirely off the mark.

So from this filter, we can then proceed to run a type of societal diagnosis upon ourselves "Doctor heal thyself".

That the present state of affairs is so bad, isn't so bad in the final analysis because "for mankind, all happiness must arise exclusively only in relation to some unhappiness, already experienced" (Gurdjieff) and where "the more that sorrow and suffering has carved into our being the more joy we can contain" (Gibran).

It's always darkest before the dawn, and what are we if not it's light at least in part.

So our cause is still worthy and just, to help bring to light the dark ugly truth about 9/11 and what it really means in terms of the so-called "elite" who want to take over the world and in some ways already have right under our noses or in the case of 9/11 right before our eyes.

It was not unlike a type of magic trick performed on the grandest scale, 9/11, and because the alternative hypothesis hasn't been completely able to unravell it, with questions remaining and absurd claims about space beams and the like, the official story narrative sticks in the collective imagination and unconsciousness and there corrupts the American mind if only because it is not true and simply cannot be believed.

9/11 is like a chain that binds a historical beast of prey and casts him headlone into the abyss, which means, oblivion.

Just one more generation to come along and take a good cold hard look at the evidence, and there it is.

The buildings did not really "collapse" that's not what took place or occurred in reality and according to the immutable laws of physics.

9/11 is leaking, and way to go 9/11 truth movement for keeping it on the table in order so that future generations looking back can get the story straight, which they will and can't not.

In the very near future, grade 10 level physics students, armed with nothing but a bunch of youtube videos and a stopwatch, will not only prove 9/11 to be false, but their understanding of the course material to be true, and their teacher will have to give them an A without sending them to see the psychiatrist.

It will happen eventually.

But as to the current state of human affairs, i'd have to agree that it looks pretty darn dismal. It's not a good prognosis when using Scott Peck's filter to examine it. Makes for good comedy though, potentially, from the POV of the future looking back on this entire nightmare of historic insanity from 2001 to 2015 (and it's still going on, all justified in the name of 9/11, so it's still relevant as the documentary points out).